Yawa-Madhá Delegation
Yawa-Madhá Delegation
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
The Kulina Madhá are an Indigenous people in recent contact with non-Indigenous society, known for preserving very ancient spiritual practices that have been kept alive through healing lineages.
Along with two leaderships of the Yawanawa peole, the Yawa-Madhá delegation will guide you through a deep journey into opening your voice, listening, and connecting with your own essence.
SHAMAN PAJÉ MANÁ: Pajé Maná Madhá received from his own people the name “Saint.” He is a great spiritual leader. As explained by Putanny and Biraci Nixiwaká, leaders of the Yawanawá people, Maná and his wife Ratsuhá are regarded as “people from 500 years ago” and as “royalty” in the realm of spirituality. He received a traditional training that today only a few pajés still carry, with deep knowledge of medicinal plants and a powerful spiritual healing technique, capable of materializing illness in order to remove it from the patient’s body. Known for healing serious illnesses, Maná works on both the physical and spiritual dimensions.
RATSHUÁ: Ratsuhá is a female spiritual leader with a rare traditional training, a specialist in childbirth who carries knowledge that today only a few healers still possess, and she has already accompanied over 2,800 births. Together with her husband, she works in healing sessions according to the Madhá tradition and takes part in the transmission of knowledge through the spiritual practice called Opening of the Voice, a rigorous process that involves body techniques, ritual use of tobacco, specific dietas, and that imprints the learn ing of the songs into the apprentice’s body.
VESKU: Vesku is a Yawanawá female leader living in an Apurinã village, devoted to strengthening Indigenous culture, with a special focus on women and the use of medicinal plants. Sister to spiritual leader Putanny, she carries the legacy of her grandfather, a great healer who knew many medicinal plants. A student of midwives and women healers, she is also a guardian of Yawanawá songs, stories, and ancestral knowledge, learned since her childhood. At her home, she is building a medicinal plant pharmacy as well as a seed bank, dedicating herself to preserving Indigenous knowledge and medicine.
RUNUINÁ: Runuiná is a musician, composer, and young Yawanawá-Pupykary leader, son of Vesku Yawanawá and Antônio Apurinã, and a guardian of the ancestry of his people. He has dedicated himself from an early age to Indigenous musicality and has been a student of Pajé Maná for more than ten years, learning from him prayers, songs, and traditional healing arts. He composes his own songs by translating Pajé Maná’s traditional Saitis — originally performed exclusively with the voice — onto the guitar.
Along with two leaderships of the Yawanawa peole, the Yawa-Madhá delegation will guide you through a deep journey into opening your voice, listening, and connecting with your own essence.
SHAMAN PAJÉ MANÁ: Pajé Maná Madhá received from his own people the name “Saint.” He is a great spiritual leader. As explained by Putanny and Biraci Nixiwaká, leaders of the Yawanawá people, Maná and his wife Ratsuhá are regarded as “people from 500 years ago” and as “royalty” in the realm of spirituality. He received a traditional training that today only a few pajés still carry, with deep knowledge of medicinal plants and a powerful spiritual healing technique, capable of materializing illness in order to remove it from the patient’s body. Known for healing serious illnesses, Maná works on both the physical and spiritual dimensions.
RATSHUÁ: Ratsuhá is a female spiritual leader with a rare traditional training, a specialist in childbirth who carries knowledge that today only a few healers still possess, and she has already accompanied over 2,800 births. Together with her husband, she works in healing sessions according to the Madhá tradition and takes part in the transmission of knowledge through the spiritual practice called Opening of the Voice, a rigorous process that involves body techniques, ritual use of tobacco, specific dietas, and that imprints the learn ing of the songs into the apprentice’s body.
VESKU: Vesku is a Yawanawá female leader living in an Apurinã village, devoted to strengthening Indigenous culture, with a special focus on women and the use of medicinal plants. Sister to spiritual leader Putanny, she carries the legacy of her grandfather, a great healer who knew many medicinal plants. A student of midwives and women healers, she is also a guardian of Yawanawá songs, stories, and ancestral knowledge, learned since her childhood. At her home, she is building a medicinal plant pharmacy as well as a seed bank, dedicating herself to preserving Indigenous knowledge and medicine.
RUNUINÁ: Runuiná is a musician, composer, and young Yawanawá-Pupykary leader, son of Vesku Yawanawá and Antônio Apurinã, and a guardian of the ancestry of his people. He has dedicated himself from an early age to Indigenous musicality and has been a student of Pajé Maná for more than ten years, learning from him prayers, songs, and traditional healing arts. He composes his own songs by translating Pajé Maná’s traditional Saitis — originally performed exclusively with the voice — onto the guitar.
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